Perl Tutorial

Perl is the abbreviation for Practical Extraction and Report Language, which can be translated as "Practical Report Extraction Language".

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.

Perl was originally designed by Larry Wall and released on December 18, 1987.

Perl borrows features from C, sed, awk, shell scripts, and many other programming languages.

Perl's most important feature is its built-in support for regular expressions, as well as the huge third-party code repository CPAN.

Who is this tutorial for?

This tutorial is suitable for developers who want to learn the Perl programming language from scratch. Of course, this tutorial also goes deeper into some modules, giving you a better understanding of Perl applications.

What you need to know before learning this tutorial

Before continuing with this tutorial, you should understand some basic computer programming terms. If you have studied other programming languages such as PHP, ASP, etc., it will help you understand Perl programming faster.

First Perl Program

For most programming languages, the first introductory code is "Hello World!". The following code uses Perl to output "Hello World!":